Commonplaces Quotes
18 quotes by 18 authors
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Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.
— Norman Rockwell
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My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my…
— Harry Houdini
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An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
— William Hazlitt
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Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary…
— Felix Frankfurter
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Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and…
— Lewis Mumford
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Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are…
— Miguel de Unamuno
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The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
— Gertrude Atherton
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Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and commonplaces are suddenly…
— Steve Leveen
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Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
— Eric Hoffer
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The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces,…
— John Stuart Mill
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My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a kingdom of ideal…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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How I waited for you! How I longed for you! he stammered. "I thought of you all the time. I saw you all the time.…
— Henri Barbusse
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It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by…
— Alice Duer Miller
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After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it…
— Christopher Fry
Who Wrote These Commonplaces Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 18 Commonplaces Quotes as follows: